Improvement in shirts



WILLIAM H. CARROLL, OF COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI.

Letters Patent No. 108,567, dated October 25, 1870.

Moen- IMPROVEMENT IN SHIRTS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patentend making part of thesame.

To all whom it may concern Bc it known that I, WILLIAM H. CARROLL, ofColumbus, in the county of Lowndes and State of Mississippi, haveinvented ,new and useful Improvements in Shirts; and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof',which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same,reference being `had to the accom# panying drawing forming a part ofthis specification.

This invention relates to improvements in shirts, and consists in theapplication to the front and top, around the neck, or partly around it,of a ribbed elastic knit goods, which, without having the slit oropening at the top commonly employed for opening to let the head throughin putting the shirt on and ofi', will yield or stretch for the purpose,thereby avoiding'the necessity of having the said slits or openings,which are objectionable vin point of healthfulness and the. labor ofbuttoning and repair.

The said improvement is designed mainly for under-shirts.

The drawing represents front view of a shirt made according to myinvention.

A represents the body ofthe shirt, which may be of flannel, knit, orother goods.

B is the ribbed or other elastic substance which I propose to introducein the bosom,v and around or partly around the neckpas shown, the saidpart being of any requisite shape and size, to serve the purpose forwhich it is designed, viz., to expand for putting the head through the.hole for the neck, and to contract again afterward to cause the shirt toassume the natural shape thcreat, to avoid the use of the open-

